Spousal Support (Alimony) Basics Spousal Support (Alimony) Basics When a married couple gets a divorce, the court may award alimony or spousal support to one of the former spouses, based either on an agreement between the couple or a decision by the court itself.
Damaged liver cells lose their ability to make protein. But previously produced protein may stay in the blood for 12 to 18 days, so it takes about 2 weeks for damage to the liver to show up as decreased serum protein levels. The liver's ability to make protein may be used to predict the course of certain liver diseases.
Red blood cells, or erythrocytes, contain hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein responsible for transporting oxygen from the lungs to tissues (Merck 2006). Erythrocytes are continuously produced in bone marrow and survive about 120 days (MedlinePlus 2012a; Lledo-Garcia 2012; Dean 2005).